I attempt to search for a particular Contact entry. A message is displayed
"Instant Search encountered a problem while trying to display search results.
Modifying your query may resolve this problem." I clicked OK on the message
box and a highlighted message appeared across the top of the Contacts pane
"Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed.
Click here for more details." When I click on the message, another info box
appears titled: "Outlook is currently indexing your items. Search results
may be incomplete because items are still being indexed" , "xxxx items
remaing in "Personal" folders" and "xxxx items remaining across all open
mailboxes". The xxxx is a number that is always different each time I look
at it (sometimes a large number, sometimes small), but never zero, and never
trending in one direction or another...almost like the indexing process is in
an unending loop that never comes to completion. When I click START, then
CONTROL PANEL, then INDEXING OPTIONS, it says Indexing is not running. I
have XP on my laptop, I'm running Outlook 2007. Help please.

Re: Instant Search not working and Outlook indexing never completes by Russ

Russ
Wed Mar 19 13:07:24 PDT 2008

Start with the basic troubleshooting for Instant Search:
http://www.msoutlook.info/question/47
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Russ Valentine
[MVP-Outlook]
"Scooter" <Scooter@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F29769D9-6E97-47FE-B449-EB112EEC0A86@microsoft.com...
>I attempt to search for a particular Contact entry. A message is displayed
> "Instant Search encountered a problem while trying to display search
> results.
> Modifying your query may resolve this problem." I clicked OK on the
> message
> box and a highlighted message appeared across the top of the Contacts pane
> "Search results may be incomplete because items are still being indexed.
> Click here for more details." When I click on the message, another info
> box
> appears titled: "Outlook is currently indexing your items. Search results
> may be incomplete because items are still being indexed" , "xxxx items
> remaing in "Personal" folders" and "xxxx items remaining across all open
> mailboxes". The xxxx is a number that is always different each time I
> look
> at it (sometimes a large number, sometimes small), but never zero, and
> never
> trending in one direction or another...almost like the indexing process is
> in
> an unending loop that never comes to completion. When I click START, then
> CONTROL PANEL, then INDEXING OPTIONS, it says Indexing is not running. I
> have XP on my laptop, I'm running Outlook 2007. Help please.